aquarium
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中文詞源
aquarium 水族館來(lái)自詞根aqua, 水。
英文詞源
- aquarium
- aquarium: [19] Aquarium is a modern adaptation of the neuter form of the Latin adjective aquārius ‘watery’ (a noun aquārium existed in Roman times, but it meant ‘place where cattle drink’). Its model was vivarium, a 16th-century word for a ‘place for keeping live animals’. This was the term first pressed into service to describe such a place used for displaying fish and other aquatic life: in 1853 the magazine Athenaeum reported that ‘the new Fish house at the London Zoo has received the somewhat curious title of the “Marine Vivarium”’; and in the following year the guidebook to the Zoological Gardens called it the ‘Aquatic Vivarium’.
Within a year or two of this, however, the term aquarium had been coined and apparently established.
- aquarium (n.)
- 1830, noun use of neuter of Latin aquarius "pertaining to water," as a noun, "water-carrier," genitive of aqua "water" (see aqua-). The word existed in Latin, but there it meant "drinking place for cattle." Originally especially for growing aquatic plants; An earlier attempt at a name for "fish tank" was marine vivarium.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Previous attempts at filtering and oxygenating aquarium water had failed.
- 之前嘗試過(guò)幾次將魚(yú)缸中的水過(guò)濾并充氧，但都沒(méi)有成功。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. The aquarium has many tanks of fish.
- 那家水族館有許多裝在水箱中的魚(yú)類(lèi).
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.
- 我第一次看見(jiàn)海豹是在水族館里。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weed'showing as in an aquarium.
- 礁石內(nèi)側(cè):海水絢爛, 暗礁林立,海藻叢生,就象水族館的生態(tài)展覽一樣.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. The occasion begins well with a visit to the local aquarium.
- 會(huì)見(jiàn)是以參觀當(dāng)?shù)氐乃屦^開(kāi)始的.
來(lái)自辭典例句